The Eye, Dungeon, Harrods and some vinyl
Trip Start
May 28, 2007
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Trip End
Jul 2007
London,
United Kingdom
Monday, July 9, 2007
After our filling and scrumptious breakfast, we caught the tube across the city to the London Eye for a great panoramic view of the city. It was fantastic, we really enjoyed ourselves and it was definitely worth the money. It was then another tube journey to the London Bridge and London Dungeon. The London Dungeon was good fun, and it had some different things since the last time I went. The funniest was the room of the lost - which consisted of low light and lots of mirrors which was very confusing. It took quite some time to make it the whole way through as it was very busy.
It was back to the hotel quickly to tidy ourselves up and check out of the hotel. We then made our way to Harrods to have a look around at the famous store. There were some wonderful things there - so many we wish we had room to take home with us.
When we left Harrods we entered the tube at Knightsbridge station as we were heading a little way out of London. Once at the platform, three trains went past, well they stopped and then continues without the doors opening. We were a little confused and starting to worry a bit, especially when the security guard told everyone to leave because of a 'power failure'. We tried to leave put the exits were blocked, but soon thankfully someone came and let us all out.
After leaving the station a bit confused we asked for directions to another station, upon arriving at it, we were told by security that it was closed and so were a few surrounding ones due to a security alert. It was rather frightening looking for a taxi near Harrods with police and the fire brigade coming in at a fast pace. We were soon in a taxi and went to a tube station a bit further away.
We went to Camden Town to do some record shopping, and we were really impressed by the area. There were some really funky markets and shops and heaps of record stores. We only had time for one though, but it was great, and after listening to lots of records we bought a small selection and headed back to the hotel to pick up our bags.
As soon as we got onto the street at Marble Arch it started raining, we were not prepared for that due to the sunshine in the morning, so we got soaked on the way to the hotel! Soon we were tidied up and at the airport - lining up for over an hour to check in for our flight. Unfortunately there were no spare seats on the plane so we couldn't upgrade!
After some food it was announced our plane was boarding at gate 40 (previously none of the boards displayed a gate for out flight). After using the bathrooms, it was announced our flight was closing!!! We ran - of course the gate was the furthest away!!! There were a few people running or hurrying in our direction so with my toe ailment I decided to walk the rest of the way (Trent did too!). When we got to the gate, the flight hadn't even started boarding, everyone was sitting in the lounge, and we continued to sit there for at least 10 minutes or more before we could board the plane. We ran for nothing lol!
We then get on the plane to see we aren't sitting next to each other - but across the aisle from each other...so romantic (I'm sitting with kids!). Because the flight is so full they can't move us, and whilst Trent is sitting next to one person who could swap with me, he hasn't offered to move even when we spoke to the flight attendant. We are sitting next to each other on the other half of the trip, otherwise we would be finishing our honeymoon separately!
